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The Clemyjontri Park playground fills a 2 acre site in Fairfax VA, and features four outdoor rooms surrounding a central carousel. Surely, Seattle can top Fairfax VA.Nothing against Dale Chihuly, or museums in general, but I was deadly serious the...

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Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don t have to.Here s a link to this month s NWMLS press release: Northwest MLS members report 28 percent increase in pending sales fro...

topics: affordability, everett, foreclosures, mls, neighborhood

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Dylan PriestWestern Garden's Samgyeopsal Oakland and San Francisco both have good little strips of Korean restaurants, but they're paltry compared to Lynnwood, Federal Way, and Lakewood. After L... Continue reading 10 Things I'll Miss About ...

topics: federal-way, lakewood, lynnwood, restaurants, suburbs

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Here s a free tip to those Seattle-haters in the rest of the state who just love to screw us big city folks: pass a high-earners income tax.Really. Pass it. I mean, honestly, let s say we levy an income tax on household earnings in excess of $500,0...

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There is one cut in Gov. Gregoire s preliminary all-cuts budget proposal that the Seattle Times opposes:The proposed cut the governor would buy back, and that we would, too, is in levy-equalization money for public schools. This is money that keeps a...

topics: government, health-care, politics, suburbs

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While other gay-rights organizations in Seattle atrophied, struggled, or vanished, Equal Rights Washington (ERW) prospered under the leadership of Connie Watts. The former senior field director for the national office of Planned Parenthood in Washing...

topics: campaign, capitol-hill, fest, first-hill, parade

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The Seattle P-I s Chris Grygiel says it like it is:How did Dow Constantine beat Susan Hutchison so handily in last month s King County executive s race? As a Seattle Times map shows, he won Seattle handily and got more votes in the Eastside suburbs....

topics: democrats, republican, republicans, suburbs

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How did Dow Constantine beat Susan Hutchison so handily in last month's King County executive's race? As a Seattle Times map shows, he won Seattle handily and got more votes in the Eastside suburbs. Constantine's strong showing in what, until recentl...

topics: election, republican, suburbs

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As noted in yesterday's Morning News, King County will avoid cutting much bus service over the next two years. This is good, considering Metro was forecast a few months ago to cut nine percent of service overall (fewer buses and less service at fewer...

topics: suburbs, tax, transit

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At the Embassy Suites in Tukwila last night, King County Executive candidate Susan Hutchison sung a different tune than at her scripted Seattle press conferences. Addressing the Suburban Cities Association, a network of suburban elected officials, sh...

topics: budget, business, candidate, city-council, elected